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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

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A sociological study of the various "isms" in today's society.

Preface	p. xi
The Appeal of Mass Movements
The Desire for Change	p. 3
The Desire for Substitutes	p. 12
The Interchangeability of Mass Movements	p. 16
The Potential Converts
The Role of the Undesirables in Human Affairs	p. 24
The Poor	p. 26
The New Poor	p. 26
The Abjectly Poor	p. 27
The Free Poor	p. 31
The Creative Poor	p. 34
The Unified Poor	p. 34
Misfits	p. 46
The Inordinately Selfish	p. 48
The Ambitious Facing Unlimited Opportunities	p. 49
Minorities	p. 50
The Bored	p. 51
The Sinners	p. 53
United Action and Self-sacrifice
Preface	p. 58
Factors Promoting Self-sacrifice	p. 62
Identification with a Collective Whole	p. 62
Make-believe	p. 66
Deprecation of the Present	p. 68
"Things Which Are Not"	p. 76
Doctrine	p. 79
Fanaticism	p. 83
Mass Movements and Armies	p. 88
Unifying Agents	p. 91
Hatred	p. 91
Imitation	p. 101
Persuasion and Coercion	p. 105
Leadership	p. 111
Action	p. 120
Suspicion	p. 124
The Effects of Unification	p. 126
Beginning and End
Men of Words	p. 130
The Fanatics	p. 143
The Practical Men of Action	p. 147
Good and Bad Mass Movements	p. 153
The Unattractiveness and Sterility of the Active Phase	p. 153
Some Factors Which Determine the Length of the Active Phase	p. 157
Useful Mass Movements	p. 162
Notes	p. 169
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